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This guide provides insights into force plate technology, enabling you to optimize testing, understand key metrics and tailor assessments to your athletes’ or patients’ needs.
For users who have reached this intermediate stage of force plate knowledge and experience, congratulations! However, the road to force plate mastery is a long one, so beware of overconfidence in force plate testing and embrace the opportunity to continue your learning journey..
More force plate questions, answered.
Q:How do I choosewhich metrics to pay attention to?
Q: How do I select which tests I should use?
Q: How do I ensure I am getting accurate data from my tests?
Q: How do I test physical characteristics with force plates?
Q: How do I interpret force-time curves?
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By longitudinally tracking force plate results I can determine whether my intervention should target a physical quality or focus more on motor skill development for a given sporting task.
Exploring this deeper level of analysis not only strengthens data-informed decision-making but also supports individualized, targeted interventions.
Weekly jump tests on force plates give us a valuable tool to model recovery, track progress, refine training and most importantly, identify whether an athlete is moving towards their goals or veering off course.
It is exciting to see sports science, performance and medical practitioners harness kinetic insights from force plates to better answer their performance- and injury- related questions, and to ask more and better questions.
The ease with which force plates allow us to gather and identify complex neuromuscular insights means we can then be truly targeted in focusing on enhancing essential athletic qualities.
The enhanced speed at which you can now assess physical qualities enhances the impact this information has on program design and influences enhanced performance for those athletes or clients.
Force platforms play an essential role in isolating and contextualizing different aspects of maximal force expression.
